Download or read book Innovations in Goat Keeping in Humid West and Central Africa written by H. A. G. Koper-Limbourg and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Goat Production Systems in the Humid Tropics written by A. O. Ayeni and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nigeria Dwarf Goats Care for Novice written by Morgan Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West African Dwarf (Wad) Goats Characterize A Most Important Farm Animal's Aid In The Humid West And Central Africa The Place They Are Allotted Throughout 15 Countries. These Goats Have Raised In Low-Input Structures The Place They Make Contributions To Profits And Livelihoods Of Tens Of Millions Of People, With Females Enjoying Key Roles In Neighborhood Wad Goat Price Chains. These Goats Are Farmed For Their Excessive Fertility, A Couple Of Births, Excessive Twinning Rates, All-Season Breeding, In Addition To Versions In Qualitative Features Inside Populations, Justifying Also Insurance Policies For Their Conservation And Sustainable Use. Their Rusticity And Adaptation To Outdoor Systems, As Nicely As Their Cultural Significance, Make Contributions To Their Popularity. Despite These Attributes, Extreme Constraints To Manufacturing Consist Of The Absence Of A Policy-Driven Agenda For Their Sustainable Manufacturing And Utilization And No Systematic Long-Term Breeding Programs For Their Genetic Improvement.This Article Opinions The Fame Of Wad Goat Manufacturing And Proposes Techniques For Their Full Exploitation As The Phase Of A Poverty Discount Agenda. Knowledge Gaps Inclusive Of State Of Affairs Evaluation (I.E. Repute Of Policies, Institutions, Infrastructure, And Capacities For Sustainable Wad Goat Production) And Evaluation Of Strengths, Weaknesses, Possibilities, And Threats To Wad Goat Manufacturing Structures Are Suggested.Proposed Interventions Encompass The Following: A Regional Policy-Driven Agenda On Sustainable Wad Goat Production, Systematic Long-Term Lookup And Improvement Method (I.E. Breeding Policy, Infrastructure For Recording, Genetic Assessment And Provision Of Estimated Breeding Values To Farmers As A Shoppers Service, Etc.), Wad Goat Cost Chain Mapping, Analysis, Chain Empowerment, Gender Inclusiveness, And Farm Animals Entrepreneurship Via Wad Goat Production. These Programs Should Make Contributions To The Sustainable Exploitation And Conservation Of The Genetic Potentials Of Wad Goats For Wealth Creation, Particularly For Resource-Limited Families.Origin And HistoryAlthough The Earliest Origins Of The Nigerian Dwarf Goat Hint Again To The African Continent, There's Little Proof To Propose That The Breed's Title Precisely Displays Both Its Use Of Beginning Or Its Genetic Makeup. Nigerian Dwarfs Are Now Not From Nigeria, Nor Are They Real Genetic Dwarfs. And Whilst They Do Share Many Characteristics, Nigerian Dwarfs Have To Now Not Be Stressed With Pygmy Goats, As The Two Have Emerged As Fairly Specific Breeds Given That Their Arrival In The United States.Both Nigerian Dwarfs And Pygmy Goats Possibly Descended From West African Dwarf Goats. These Animals Furnished Milk And Meat For The Neighborhood Population. Beginning In The 1930s, They Grew To Become Foods For Lions And Different Carnivorous Animals On Their Trans-Oceanic Experience From The Wonderful Plains Of Africa To Zoos Throughout America. Over Time, The Fortunate Goats No Longer Fed On Enroute Earned Their Exhibits, And As Their Populations Grew, Zoos Offered Surplus Inventory To Lookup Establishments And Personal Individuals.Once Freed From The Confines Of Our Nation's Zoological Parks, Nigerians Have Been Crossed With Many Breeds, Which Include San Clemente, Spanish Meat Goats, And Other Small-Statured Varieties. In 1981, The American Goat Society Sooner Or Later Identified The Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goat As An Awesome Breed, And In 2005 The American Dairy Goat Association Gave The Breed Its Very Own Purebred Herdbook, Making It The Most Currently Identified Dairy Breed In The U.S. Today.

Download or read book La Production de Viande Ovine Et Caprine Dans Les R gions Tropicales Humides de L Afrique de L Ouest written by Vivian M. Timon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sustainable Goat Production in Adverse Environments Volume II written by João Simões and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers more than 40 indigenous goat breeds and several ecotypes around the globe and describes genotypic and phenotype traits related to species adaptation to harsh environments and climate change. It also addresses sustainable global farming of local goat breeds in different production systems and agro-ecosystems. Discussing three main global regions: Asia, Africa, and Europe, it particularly focuses on adverse environments such as mountain, semiarid and arid regions. The topic of this highly readable book includes the disciplines of animal physiology, breeding, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and veterinary science, and as such it provides valuable information for academics, practitioners, and general readers with an interest in those fields.

Download or read book Goat Production in the Tropics written by C. Devendra and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Goat Production and Supply Chain Management in the Tropics written by Pramod Kumar Rout and published by CABI. This book was released on 2019-12-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical manual for goat production systems covering: breeding and selection, feeding based on available crops and resources, and targeted preventative health care for increased productivity and income. It outlines best practice and strategies for setting up a farm, overcoming challenges, increasing milk and meat quality, obtaining sustainability, reducing environmental pollution, optimising climatic conditions and tapping into local know-how. In addition, the book details developing region-specific data for effective decision making and better management, as well as how to run a developmental project to empower stake holders for higher production, support innovation, and analyse the supply chain for better product quality and marketing.

Download or read book Small Ruminant Research and Development in Africa written by African Small Ruminant Research Network. Conference and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Goat Science written by Sándor Kukovics and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goat science covers quite a wide range and varieties of topics, from genetics and breeding, via nutrition, production systems, reproduction, milk and meat production, animal health and parasitism, etc., up to the effects of goat products on human health. In this book, several parts of them are presented within 18 different chapters. Molecular genetics and genetic improvement of goats are the new approaches of goat development. Several factors affect the passage rate of digesta in goats, but for diet properties, goats are similar to other ruminants. Iodine deficiency in goats could be dangerous. Assisted reproduction techniques have similar importance in goats like in other ruminants. Milk and meat production traits of goats are almost equally important and have significant positive impacts on human health. Many factors affect the health of goats, heat stress being of increasing importance. Production systems could modify all of the abovementioned characteristics of goats.

Download or read book Goat Production in the Humid Tropics written by O. B. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sheep and Goats in Developing Countries written by Winrock International Livestock Research and Training Center and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of this study are to assess the role of small ruminants (sheep and goats) in the food production systems of developing countries, examine their advantages and disadvantages, analyze the constraints limiting their further contribution to the welfare of small farm/low income rural producers, prescribe measures for overcoming these constraints, and make recommendations related to potential donor involvement in support of the development of sheep and goat production. Small ruminants are viewed as an integral, but not dominant component of complex agricultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on sheep and goats in mixed herds grazing dry rangelands and in small mixed farm systems in medium to high rainfall areas. An analysis of major constraints -- ecological, biological, policy, and socio-economic -- leads to recommendations on the need for a balanced production system approach for research, training and development programs, and for a combination of support activities such as herd health programs, and formulation of favorable credit, marketing and pricing policies for small ruminants and their products.

Download or read book Agrindex written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The role of genetic resources for food and agriculture in adaptation to and mitigation of climate change written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the pace of climate change is increasing, it is more important than ever to conserve, characterize and sustainably use genetic resources for food and griculture. Over millennia farmers, livestock keepers, fisherfolk and forest dwellers have adapted their production systems to changing environmental conditions, relying on genetic resources for food and agriculture. However, these resources are still not receiving the attention they deserve given their enormous importance. The main focus of this study is the state of current use of genetic resources in climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. Each chapter explores the impacts of climate change on genetic resources and also considers the significance of genetic resources to climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Download or read book Farming Systems of the African Savanna written by A. Ker and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1995 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming Systems of the African Savanna: A continent in crisis

Download or read book Sheep and Goat Production and Marketing Systems in Ethiopia written by Solomon Gizaw and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phenotypic Characterization of Animal Genetic Resources written by and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These guidelines are part of a series of publications produced by FAO to support countries in the implementation of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources.